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Re: [perl #105278] Add warning for exists($a[0]) and delete($a[0])

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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
December 7, 2011 09:44
Subject:
Re: [perl #105278] Add warning for exists($a[0]) and delete($a[0])
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CALJW-qFmprKksbvKEq4U4hN7YJG0=w1u29bttjsC073Hj8GNOQ@mail.gmail.com
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Nicholas Clark via RT <
perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:53:35PM -0500, Eric Brine wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Father Chrysostomos via RT <
> > perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Seeing that I maintain code that would produce literally thousands of
> > > warnings as a result (and there?s nothing wrong with the code), I?m
> > > opposed to this.
> > >
> >
> > That only applies to #3 and maybe #2. #1 simply removes deprecated uses
> of
> > exists from XS-APItest.
>
> Independent of everything else, I don't think that's a good idea.
>
> Historically we've continued to test deprecated stuff until the commit that
> actually removes it, to ensure that it doesn't change behaviour without us
> knowing about it.
>

None of the patches remove any tests.

- Eric

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